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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780060834890
From the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature comes a memoir that interweaves fiction writing and autobiography in an utterly unique and innovative way....more details Format:Paperback Pages:274
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780007233458
The first book after Doris' Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead. 'I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over...more details Format:Hardback Pages:288
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780006552291
Many will recall the powerful impact The Fifth Child, Doris Lessing's 1988 novel, made on publication. Its account of idyllic marital and parental bliss irredeemably shattered by the arrival of the feral fifth child of the Lovatts made for unnerving and compulsive reading. That child...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780307390615
In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac. Charles Watkins...more details Format:Paperback Pages:308
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9781841593166
Included are seminal stories like "To Room Nineteen", in which a woman reacts against the oppression of her banal marriage with dreadful results; "One off the Short List"...more details Format:Hardback
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780006550839
The new novel from one of the greatest twentieth-century writers. Doris Lessing returns to the world of visionary fiction, last visited in her acclaimed 'Canopus in Argos' quintet of novels in the 1980s. It is sooner than you might think. And the earth's climate is much changed -- it's colder than ever before in the north...more details Format:Paperback Pages:416
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780007285518
A collection of Doris Lessing's charming and celebrated writings about cats. Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semi-feral creatures on the African farm where she grew up...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780007144334
Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semi-feral creatures on the African farm where she grew up. Her fascination remained undiminished by the handsome domesticated creatures who shared her flats and her life in London and grew into real love with El Magnifico...more details Format:Hardback Pages:128
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780007250370
Doris Lessing, one of England's finest living novelists, invites us to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780007233434
Doris Lessing, one of England's finest living novelists, invites us to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy...more details Format:Hardback Pages:260
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780007233441
Doris Lessing, one of England's finest living novelists, invites us to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780007136445
The diaries introduce us to Jane, an intelligent and beautiful magazine editor concerned with success, clothes and comfort. After her husband...more details Format:Paperback Pages:512
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780007247202
The striking reissue of this classic Lessing novel. Widely regarded as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Anna Wulf is a young novelist with writer's block. Divorced...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:576
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9789626341582
One of the most important books of the growing feminist movement of the 1950s, it was brought to a wider public by the Nobel Prize award to Doris Lessing in 2007. Authoress Anna Wulf attempts to overcome writer's block by writing a comprehensive 'golden notebook' which draws together the preoccupations of her life...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780586089231
Beautiful, striking reissue of this classic Lessing novel. Widely regarded as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century Anna Wulf is a young novelist with writer's block. Divorced...more details Format:Paperback Pages:576
A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth-century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era. In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:400
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780007152810
An honest and often uncomfortable look at race relations in London over the past few decades, Lessing reaffirms her brilliance at demonstrating the effect of society on the individual.With these and two other equally brilliant novellas...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780002257558
Hardback 50th Anniversary Edition Doris Lessing brought the manuscript of THE GRASS IS SINGING, her classic first novel, with her when she left Southern Rhodesia and came to England in 1950. When it was first published it created an impact whose reverberations we are still feeling...more details Format:Hardback
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780002262002
A beautifully produced edition of a new cat tale from Doris Lessing. A new short story from Doris Lessing about an awkwardly loveable old cat...more details Format:Hardback
This is a fascinating novel of love and ecology, from one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Doris Lessing returns to the world of visionary fiction...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780007152803
Doris Lessing's new novel charts his adventures across the frozen wastes of the north, a journey that will eventually lead to the discovery of a secret library....more details Format:Hardback
Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's classic novel of the pivotal summer in one woman's life is a brilliant excursion into the terrifying gulf between youth and old age. As the summer begins...more details Format:Paperback Pages:273
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780006545439
Beautiful new edition of this classic collection 'As for these stories -- when I write one, it is as if I open a gate into a landscape which is always there. Time has nothing to do with it. A certain kind of pulse starts beating...more details Format:Paperback Pages:432
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780002257060
Hardback re-issue of this classic collection of stories This is the second volume of Doris Lessing's Collected African Stories. A classic work of twentieth-century literature. 'Some stories are set in the Twenties...more details Format:Hardback
Doris Lessing tackles the 1960s and their legacy head-on in her most involving, most personal, most political novel for some years. It's the morning of the Sixties and it's suppertime at Freedom Hall...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780006548072
The grande dame of English literature -- one of her finest short story collections, beautifully repackaged Doris Lessing is unrivalled in her ability to capture the truth from the complexities of relationships and the stories in this wonderful collection have lost none of their original power. Two marriages...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780586091135
Stunning new edition of this classic African story collection 'It can be said of all white-dominated Africa that it was -- and still is -- the Old Chief's Country. So all the stories I write of a certain kind I think of as belonging under that heading; tales about white people...more details Format:Paperback Pages:432
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780002257053
Hardback re-issue of this classic collection of stories This is the first volume of Doris Lessing's Collected African Stories. A classic work of twentieth-century literature. 'In story after story...more details Format:Hardback Pages:416
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780007199402
Assembled here for the first time in book form are the very best of several decades' worth of occasional writings from perhaps the best-loved and most-admired of Britain's great female writers A selection of the very best of Doris Lessing's essays...more details
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780007179855
Assembled here for the first time in book form are the very best of several decades' worth of occasional writings from perhaps the best-loved and most-admired of Britain's great female writersA selection of the very best of Doris Lessing's essays...more details Format:Hardback
Assembled here for the first time in book form are the very best of several decades' worth of occasional writings from perhaps the best-loved and most-admired of Britain's great female writers. A selection of the very best of Doris Lessing's essays...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:384
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780007143009
The grande dame of English Literature - some of her most perceptive, most revelatory stories, beautifully repackaged For more than four decades...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Doris Lessing
ISBN:9780006388890
This is Doris Lessing's follow-up to the first part of her autobiography, "Under My Skin". Here, we move into the heyday of her career, sparked off by the international success of her first novel in 1950...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060976637
An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060976644
Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In a "Ripple from the Storm...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060924331
A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant . . . and] captures the contradictions of a young country...more details Format:Paperback Pages:464
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780006546900
British author Lessing recounts visits to her homeland, Zimbabwe, 25 years after her exile from old Southern Rhodesia for opposing the minority white government...more details Format:Paperback
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780007240173
The first book after Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060834883
I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:274
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Niccolo Tucci;Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9781559210553
The rich and complex saga of a wealthy Russian family at the turn of the century."Mr. Tucci performs something of a major tour de force. After a brilliant first chapter which pinpoints with deft if uncharitable wit its cast of characters...more details Format:Paperback Pages:638
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060934651
At eighteen, Ben is in the world, but not of it. He is too large, too awkward, too inhumanly made. Now estranged from his family, he must find his own path in life. From London and the south of France to Brazil and the mountains of the Andes. Ben is tossed about in a tumultuous search for his people...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9781400077267
A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly "mad." Professor Charles Watkins of Cambridge University is a patient at a mental hospital where the doctors try with increasing drugs to bring his mind under control. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous psychological adventure where...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Doris May Lessing;George Parini JayStade
ISBN:9780684186122
Covers hundreds of writers who have made contributions to British, Irish and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:528
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Doris May Lessing;Earl G Ingersoll
ISBN:9780865380806
In these twenty-four provocative interviews, Doris Lessing talks frankly to a variety of interviewers -- among them Joyce Carol Oates and Studs Terkel -- about a wide range of subjects that concern her deeply. We hear about her early years in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)...more details Format:Paperback Pages:250
"Africa belongs to the Africans; the sooner they take it back the better. But--a country also belongs to those who feel at home in it. Perhaps it may be that love of Africa the country will be strong enough to link people who hate each other now. Perhaps..."
"Going Home" is Doris Lessing's account of her first journey back to Africa...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060976293
"In Pursuit of the English" is a novelist's account of a lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous, funny, pathetic, full-blooded life in a working-class rooming house...more details Format:Paperback Pages:244
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060976651
In the aftermath of World War II, Martha Quest finds herself completely disillusioned. She is losing faith with the communist movement in Africa...more details Format:Paperback Pages:347
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060927967
"Love, Again" tells the story of a 65-year-old woman who falls in love and struggles to maintain her sanity. Widowed for many years, with grown children...more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060930561
Thousands of years in the future, all the northern hemisphere is buried under the ice and snow of a new Ice Age. At the southern end of a large landmass called Ifrik...more details Format:Paperback Pages:416
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060959692
Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood. She is a romantic idealistic in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780061672248
Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semiferal creatures on the African farm where she grew up. Her fascination with the handsome...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:245
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060390778
Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels...more details Format:Paperback Pages:78
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780394749778
This is the first volume in the series of novels Doris Lessing calls collectively "Canopus in Argos: Archives," Presented as a compilation of documents...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780394742496
This major collection contains all of Doris Lessing's short fiction, other than the stories set in Africa, from the beginning of her career until now. Set in London...more details Format:Paperback Pages:640
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Doris May Lessing;Margaret Drabble
ISBN:9780307269881
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) This wide-ranging collection of the stories by the renowned Nobel Laureate--spanning more than two decades of her astonishing career--highlights her singular gifts for portraying the complex lives of men and women in a modern...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:655
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060834876
From Doris Lessing, "one of the most important writers of the past hundred years" ("Times" of London), comes a brilliant, darkly provocative alternative history of humankind's beginnings.
In the last years of his life...more details Format:Paperback Pages:260
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060834869
In the last years of his life, a contemplative Roman senator embarks on one last epic endeavor: to retell the history of human creation and reveal the little-known story of the Clefts...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:260
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780679721826
Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story--centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human--probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality. Harriet and David Lovatt...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060976675
Dorris Lessing's classic series of autobiographical novels is the fictional counterpart to Under My Skin. In these five novels, first published in the 1950's and 60s...more details Format:Paperback Pages:672
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780061582486
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life...more details Format:Paperback Pages:635
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060931407
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her political life...more details Format:Paperback Pages:672
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780307389961
"The Good Terrorist" follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing...more details Format:Paperback Pages:375
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060530112
In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. In Victoria and the Staveneys...more details Format:Paperback Pages:311
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060953461
Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
Set in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a beautifully understated social critique...more details Format:Paperback Pages:238
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060924171
The stories and sketches in this collection penetrate to the heart of human experience with the passion and intelligence readers have come to expect of Doris Lessing. Most of the piece are set in contemporary London...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060530136
Dann is grown up now, hunting for knowledge and despondent over the inadequacies of his civilization. With his trusted companions--Mara's daughter...more details Format:Paperback Pages:282
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780394710952
As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends...more details Format:Paperback Pages:247
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060937553
Frances Lennox ladles out dinner every night to the motley, exuberant, youthful crew assembled around her hospitable tableher two sons and their friends...more details Format:Paperback Pages:479
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060831417
In this collection of the very best of Doris Lessing's essays, we are treated to the wisdom and keen insight of a writer who has learned...more details Format:Paperback Pages:376
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060926649
"I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands."
The experiences absorbed through these "skins too few" are evoked in this memoir of Doris Lessing's childhood and youth as the daughter of a British colonial family in Persia and Southern Rhodesia Honestly and with overwhelming immediacy...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
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Doris May Lessing
ISBN:9780060929565
The second volume of Doris Lessing's extraordinary autobiography covers the years 1949-62, from her arrival in war-weary London with her son...more details Format:Paperback Pages:432